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Dell vostro 3500 and Fedora 13
Hardware
- Intel(R) Core(TM) i3 350M(2.26GHz, Dual Core, 4T, 3MB L3)
- 3GB (1X2G+1X1G) DDR3-1066MHz SDRAM, 2 DIMM
- 320GB Hard Drive, 7200 RPM
- Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8111/8168B PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet controller
- Broadcom Corporation BCM4312 802.11b/g wireless
- 8X DVD+/-RW Drive for N-Series
- Dell Wireless 365 Bluetooth Module
- 6-cell Lithium Ion Primary Battery
Fedora 13 on dell vostro 3500
Installation
Fresh installation using Fedora 13 live usb works.
Details of lsmod,lspci,lsusb and cpuinfo
Desktop Environment
I have tried Gnome, Gnome shell, Compiz fusion and sugar on my laptop everything works well.
Sound
Sound works by default.
VLC
Vlc 1.0.6 crashed initially , ran vlc using ‘MALLOC_CHECK=1 vlc’ to rectify the problem.
Wired network
Fedora uses r8169 module and it works
Wireless
Wireless won’t work by default, need to install kmod-wl package from rpmfusion non free repository.
Touchpad
Works fine. Tapping is not enabled by default, enable it by visiting System->Preferences->Mouse->Touchpad
Webcam
Webcam works. Clicked some pictures with cheese.
Bluetooth
Works. Transferred some files to my mobile.
Multimedia keys
Multimedia keys response is poor. (Play, pause,next,previous,stop,volume buttons ) I don’t know whether its the fault of my machine, because i can increase the volume with ease but cannot reduce it.